Replicability and archiving of geological samples
In Nature this week, Noah Planavsky and coworkers, including the present director of the National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, have an opinion pi...
All posts tagged with data access
Stopping ‘wasteful recollection of data already held by other research groups’
Last week I commented on the American Association of Physical Anthropologists’ recent statement on access to data: “Biological Anthropology association speak...
Supplementary data loss
My inbox this morning has an article by Diana Kwon in The Scientist, looking into the data decay from the supplementary materials of published scientific art...
Biological Anthropology association speaks out on data access
For many years, biological anthropologists have been talking about data access.
How many students in paleoanthropology can see casts of Australopithecus afarensis?
The other day I happened back upon an old post from 2005, the first full year of the blog: “NSF and data access”. The post recounts my perspective on the pro...
Why is open science important in archaeology?
Are you curious about open science, but don’t really know what it means? The September issue of The SAA Archaeological Record includes an article that review...
Should scientists refuse to review papers that do not make data available?
What should happen when scientists publish work that cannot be replicated?
Let’s make replicability a priority in human evolution research
Research on human evolution may have the worst history of data access for any field of science funded by the National Science Foundation. NSF has spent milli...
Australopithecus sediba fossils now on MorphoSource
Lee Berger gave the luncheon plenary lecture at the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists last Saturday, covering the recent discov...
Quote: Upload your data for the future
Andy Farke did a short interview with Kelsey Stilson, an author of a recent study on the paleopathology of rhinocerotids: “Author Interview: Kelsey Stilson o...
Quote: The National Research Council on data access
From chapter 2 of Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences, a publication of the National Research...
How 3D printing fossils will change the way we look at human evolution
In September our team announced the discovery of the new species, Homo naledi. The species comes from the Dinaledi Chamber, deep within the Rising Star cave ...
Data sharing and the ‘gift culture’ of science
Some paleoanthropologists claim that they share data very widely, because they are exchanging datasets with other researchers to accomplish particular resear...
From The Conversation: ‘Homo naledi fossil discovery a triumph for open access and education’
This is a reblog of my current article on the Africa edition of The Conversation, “Homo naledi fossil discovery a triumph for open access and education”, whi...
How long until paleoanthropologists must deposit data upon submission?
Genetics journals have for years routinely required sequence data to be deposited in a public database at the time that an article is published. Increasingly...
Have Sahelanthropus and Orrorin been written out of existence?
Barbara King devoted a recent NPR blog post to highlighting some professional acrimony in Current Anthropology: “Did Humans Evolve On The Savanna? The Debate...
Big data, little data
Jacquelyn Gill is a paleoecologist who writes at her blog, The Contemplative Mammoth. Today she ponders a paradox: at the same time that pollen data are more...
White House to recognize open science
The White House is looking to recognize people who are leading in open science efforts, either by providing free access to data or by using data that is alre...
White House policy on data access
The White House this week announced a new policy on public access to results from federally funded research. The announcement has gotten
Mouse brain mapping
This merits some attention: “Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain circuit mapping project”.
Big data, no access, no replication possible
The New York Times has an article by John Markoff today, pointing to several disputes over the standards for data release with scientific papers. “Troves of ...
Making Big Data work in genetics
Laura Clarke and colleagues report on the data access and management practices of the 1000 Genomes Project Clarke:1000:2012.
Public interests in data from federally funded research
I submitted the following essay in response to the Request for Information on Public Access to Digital Data Resulting from Federally Funded Research from the...
Ecologists against public access to peer reviewed publications
This seems incredible, from Jonathan Eisen: “YHGTBFKM: Ecological Society of America letter regarding #OpenAccess is disturbing”.
Will monographs arise from the dead, or eat our brains?
Inside Higher Ed reviews and interviews an author who argues that the scholarly monograph shackles academics to an obsolete model of communication:
The great world CT-scanning tour
The international version of Der Spiegel is running an English-language profile of the traveling CT-scan project from Jean-Jacques Hublin and the Max-Planck ...
Floating on the data
Technology Review reports on a recent conference trying to spread data mining techniques. The point of departure is the growth of electronic sensor networks ...
Goodall record digitization
Jason Goldman covers the acquisition of Gombe chimpanzee records from the Jane Goodall Institute by Duke University (“Digitizing Jane Goodall’s legacy at Duk...
Genomes unzipped, unzipped
Genomes Unzipped, has finally unzipped:
NSF to require data access plan
Science Insider reports that the National Science Foundation is going to make a “data management plan” a requirement of every grant application.
Online toolkits – the good and the frustrating
In pursuit of my DIY genomics posts, I’ve been playing around with the Galaxy bioinformatics web tools. The team responsible for the South African genomes pu...
NAS president calls for data sharing
Science has a one-page editorial by National Academy of Science President Ralph Cicerone. He alludes to the climate change scandals of the last few months, a...
Data mining
IBM and Google want students to ditch their laptops and pick up some big iron:
Open access and fossil reconstruction
I would love to be able to say that the Ardipithecus pelvic and cranial reconstructions were open access.
Mailbag: The Ardipithecus wait
I sense a touch of criticism regarding the grand unveiling of Ardi after 15 years wait. Now I've completed that sentence it makes sense. A large team spend 1...
Whoa, who stole the data?
OK, as you know I do this thing where I read the supplementary information in papers. I hate doing it; think they should put the stuff in the actual paper wh...
Fossil access editorial
The editors of Scientific American offer arguments for greater data and public access to fossils in their current (September 2009) issue: “Fossils for All: S...
Data warehousing in genomics interview
Software publisher O’Reilly is running an interview with David Dooling, data chief of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University: “Sequencing a ge...
Free the trees
Further drawbacks of databases in anthropology, after my post mentioning the issues. I’ll point to Martin Rundkvist’s discussion of “Open Source Dendrochrono...
Genome data access and funding models
Mike the Mad Biologist checks in with an interesting post on “The Double Standard of Genomic Data Release and the Role of Incentives”. The question: why do l...
Congress to repeal open access science provisions?
Putting science back in its proper place, Congress has taken up a bill to eliminate the requirement that publicly-funded research be freely accessible by the...
NSF and data access
Mark Weiss from NSF appeared at the AAPA business meeting to discuss recent changes in the funding guidelines from the Physical Anthropology program. The mo...